Pilot RCT
Walk with Me: a protocol for a pilot RCT of a peer-led walking programme to increase physical activity in inactive older adults
... The purpose of the rapid review was to extract the BCTs from the intervention descriptions. BCTs were in- dependently identified from the intervention descrip- tions by two researchers using the recently published BCT ...
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Pilot RCT Results of an mHealth HIV Prevention Program for Sexual Minority Male Adolescents
... Because of skew, negative binomial regression was used to estimate the incident rate ratio (IRR) of the count of CSAs for the intervention versus control groups. To examine the effect of outliers, models were estimated ...
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CBT for depression: a pilot RCT comparing mobile phone vs computer
... The results of this pilot study indicate the usefulness of replicating this study in the future research with a lar- ger sample size and control group. Minor additions to utilise the functionality available on a ...
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Decision aids for respite service choices by carers of people with dementia: development and pilot RCT
... Background: Decision aids are often used to assist individuals confronted with a diagnosis of a serious illness to make decisions about treatment options. However, they are rarely utilised to help those with chronic or ...
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Aromatherapy for the treatment of PONV in children: a pilot RCT
... a pilot randomized controlled trial examining the effect of aromatherapy on post- operative nausea and vomiting in patients 4 – 16 undergoing ambulatory surgery at a single ...
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Feasibility of a multi modal exercise program on cognition in older adults with Type 2 diabetes a pilot randomised controlled trial
... A pilot RCT of exercise (CDOT-X) was a 6-month single blind parallel RCT incorporating a supervised and progressive multi-modal exercise program with blinded outcome ...randomised pilot and ...
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Mandibular response after rapid maxillary expansion in class II growing patients: a pilot randomized controlled trial
... To our knowledge, the present study is the first pilot RCT to analyze specifically whether maxillary expansion spontaneously corrects or improves a class II malocclu- sion. In the present investigation, the ...
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<p>Wearable Technology To Reduce Sedentary Behavior And CVD Risk In Older Adults: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial</p>
... This pilot RCT investigated the safety and feasibility of adding a technology-based intervention designed to decrease sedentary behavior and increase NEPA to a traditional, structured exercise intervention ...
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‘Walk This Way’ – a pilot of a health coaching intervention to reduce sedentary behaviour and increase low intensity exercise in people with serious mental illness: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
... a pilot RCT including a pedometer-based coaching intervention to reduce sedentary behaviour and increase habitual phys- ical activity, called Walk This Way ...
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A feasibility pilot study on the use of complementary therapies delivered via mobile technologies on Icelandic surgical patients’ reports of anxiety, pain, and self efficacy in healing
... this pilot RCT was to identify the feasibility of using these novel mobile devices in a clinical setting and to compare the effectiveness of ART, MI, NVAM, and NVA delivered via Apple© iPods and iPads com- ...
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Tactile acuity training for patients with chronic low back pain: a pilot randomised controlled trial
... In this mixed-methods pilot RCT participants with CLBP were assigned to either a tactile stimulation (placebo) group or a tactile acuity (intervention) group. Participants were blinded as to which was the ...
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Cognitive behavioural therapy for psychopathology in relatives of missing persons: study protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial
... All recruitment procedures aim to enrol individuals of whom a loved one has been missing for participation in a survey study. The survey study aims to explore the psychological consequences for relatives of missing per- ...
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An investigation into meniscal allograft transplantation for the treatment of the symptomatic meniscal deficient knee
... centre RCT comparing surgical decompression to non-operative treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome 144 ...multi-centre RCT comparing vertebroplasty to non-operative treatment for osteoporotic vertebral ...
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The Implementation of an Effective Aerobic Walking Program Based on Ottawa Panel Guidelines for Older Individuals with Mild to Moderate Osteoarthritis: A Participant Exercise Preference Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial Protocol Design
... All aspects of participant recruitment explained below will be discussed among all research staff. Strategic plan will consist of posting recruitment posters at the Ottawa office of TAS located at The Billings Bridge ...
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Comparison between a nurse-led weaning protocol and weaning based on physician’s clinical judgment in tracheostomized critically ill patients: a pilot randomized controlled clinical trial
... a RCT to establish efficacy. Conclusions: In this pilot RCT we demonstrated that a nurse-led weaning protocol from tracheostomy was feasible and ...larger RCT is justified to assess ...
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Yoga to prevent mobility limitations in older adults: feasibility of a randomized controlled trial
... A pilot RCT conducted in Australia that focused on improving balance and fall prevention in older adults demonstrated that a 12-week yoga program significantly improved balance and mobility measured by 4-m ...
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Safety and feasibility evaluation of tourniquets for total knee replacement (SAFE TKR) : study protocol
... A workshop will be held at the end of the feasibility study, involving key stakeholders (approximately 30 partici- pants), patients, surgeons, researchers, allied health- care professionals and healthcare policy makers. ...
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An overview of the impact of rare disease characteristics on research methodology
... arm RCT, factorial design involves double randomization in which two comparisons are made concurrently as if conducting two simultaneous studies in the same patient population with the assump- tion that there is ...
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Sample size requirements to estimate key design parameters from external pilot randomised controlled trials: a simulation study
... the pilot are used to plan the future study, though we aim for at least 50% of studies to be powered at 90%, inspec- tion of the percentiles shows that that the planned sam- ple size delivers at least 80% power ...
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Sample size requirements to estimate key design parameters from external pilot randomised controlled trials: a simulation study
... The sampling distribution when estimating a proportion is a function of the true population proportion so it seems unwise to estimate this from a pooled group un- less it is a measure independent of treatment group and ...
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